⏩ What Can Labor Do to Build on this Unusually Promising Moment?
Join leading figures behind the surge in union organizing as we discuss how best to increase worker power.
⏩ China and the Supply Chain Mess
Robert Kuttner joins Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points to discuss the role of China in gumming up supply chains.
⏩ How We Broke the Supply Chain
Watch the writers discuss the special issue, which investigates how outsourcing, monopolies, and just-in-time manufacturing broke our supply chains.
Re-Engineering Our Supply Chains
It’s time for a coherent national logistics system, regulating and coordinating what has been privatized.
Voltage Valley
Building a domestic supply chain, Lordstown, Ohio, is becoming a hub for the electric-vehicle industry.
Toy Story: The Supply Chain
Parting Shot in our February 2022 issue
Frackers Restrict the Flow and Raise the Price
After a decade of flooding the market with cheap fossil fuels, investors have cut back on production.
The Meat Industry’s Middlemen Are Starving Families and Farmers
How monopolization in the meatpacking and processing industry affects us all
Big Business Games the Supply Chain
The disruptions, and the subsequent circumventions, have accelerated Amazon and Walmart’s takeover at the expense of independent retailers.
The Warehouse Space Race
With warehouse capacity at a premium, businesses try to get goods and move them out as global economic chaos disrupts long-held ideas about stocking stuff just in time.
Not Even a Superhero Could Fix Global Supply Chains
The comic book industry halted production in 2020 and a supply chain crisis bubbled in 2021, hitting retailers and fans alike.
Why Trucking Can’t Deliver the Goods
The yearly turnover rate among long-haul truckers is 94 percent. And you wonder why you’re not getting your orders on time?
How America’s Supply Chains Got Railroaded
Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.
We Were Warned About the Ports
A 2015 federal report predicted the entire slowdown that’s come to pass.
Labor Fight Brews on the Docks
Negotiations loom between the dockworkers union and shipping companies making record profits.
The Hidden Costs of Containerization
How the unsustainable growth of the container ship industry led to the supply chain crisis
China: Epicenter of the Supply Chain Crisis
How concentrating dependence on China upended our economy and added risk
Medical Emergency
Supply chain disruptions reduce availability of critical medical devices.
How We Broke the Supply Chain
Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits.
